Re: SP-GiST confusing introductory paragraph

2023-10-17 Thread Alex Matchneer
I realized later that "these data structures" was referring to "non-balanced data structures, such as quad-trees, k-d trees, and radix trees (tries)" from the previous paragraph, and not SP-GiST, which isn't a data structure per se. I feel a bit silly about this confusion and am not sure others wou

Re: SP-GiST confusing introductory paragraph

2023-10-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2023-Oct-16, PG Doc comments form wrote: > I'm confused by this paragraph: > > > These popular data structures were originally developed for in-memory > > usage. In main memory, they are usually designed as a set of dynamically > > allocated nodes linked by pointers. This is not suitable for d

SP-GiST confusing introductory paragraph

2023-10-16 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/spgist-intro.html Description: I'm confused by this paragraph: > These popular data structures were originally developed for in-memory usage. In main memory, they are usually designed as